Existing RDS event notification subscriptions should be configured for critical cluster events
Checks that each RDS event subscription for DB clusters covers the maintenance and failure event categories, so a pending cluster maintenance action or a cluster failure reaches its SNS topic. A pass does not show that the subscription is enabled, or that it covers every cluster rather than named ones.
- service
- RDS
- severity
- Low
- scope
- evaluated in every region
How to fix it
In the console
RDS → Event subscriptions → the subscription → Edit → Source
With the AWS CLI
aws rds modify-event-subscription --subscription-name <subscription-name> --event-categories maintenance failure --region <region>With Terraform
resource "aws_db_event_subscription" "this" {
sns_topic = var.sns_topic_arn
source_type = "db-cluster"
event_categories = ["maintenance", "failure"]
}
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